Lecture 6

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Table of Contents

The What Pathway: How object recognition breaks down

Apperceptive Agnosia

Apperceptive Agnosia

Associative Agnosia

Associative Agnosia

Integrative Visual Agnosia

Stages of visual recognition

Stages of visual recognition

Locus of recognition deficit?

Locus of recognition deficit?

Locus of recognition deficit?

Visual Agnosia Summary

… Summary continued

Prosopagnosia: Evidence for a special purpose face processor?

How selective is the impairment?

How do we process faces?

Special purpose letter processor? (Pure) Alexia

Face and Word Deficits Doubly Dissociate

Farah theory: Two specialized (lateralized?) processors

Evidence for two processors

Author: Patricia Reuter-Lorenz

Email: parl@umich.edu

Home Page: http://www.umich.edu/~psycdept/parllab

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